On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:48 AM, Keith Curtis <keit...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:23 -0700, "Marvin Humphrey" >> >> <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote: >> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 02:40:31PM -0700, Keith Curtis wrote: >> > > I recommend separating things out into using free software versus >> > > writing free software. >> > >> > They're intimately tied, aren't they? >> > >> > Not necessarily. The point I'm getting at is that some people aren't even > ready to take the step away from Windows, ASP.Net and towards LAMP.
Then they can use Open Source on Windows + ASP.Net. > So I > think that at least a preamble of a corporate policy ought to discuss why to > depend on free software for the dependencies. It seems like an important > building block on the way to making the case of why to write free software. I don't think it needs to discuss why to depend on or why to write. Free software is just another license (as compared to the license you get with commercial software). You might want a brief comment on software acquisition; you need to remind the open source types to consider paying just as much as you need to remind the commercial-types to think open source. Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: community-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: community-h...@apache.org
